Fall back to using built-in db rather than registry when some clever person decides to try installing a win32 binary on their linux box.

git-svn-id: file:///home/or/svnrepo/updater/trunk@17340 55e972cd-5a19-0410-ae62-a4d7a52db4cd

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/thandy/util.py b/lib/thandy/util.py
index ff617ae..ad69fa0 100644
--- a/lib/thandy/util.py
+++ b/lib/thandy/util.py
@@ -109,8 +109,13 @@ def randChooseWeighted(lst):
 
     return lst[-1][1]
 
+class NoRegistry(thandy.Exception):
+    pass
+
 def getRegistryValue(keyname):
     """Read the contents of a Windows registry key from a given base."""
+    if _winreg is None:
+        raise NoRegistry()
 
     hkey, rest = keyname.split("\\", 1)
     key, value = rest.rsplit("\\", 1)